Miriam Zoll - Cracked Open: Liberty, Fertility and the Pursuit of High Tech Babies

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CRACKED OPEN

Liberty, Fertility, and the Pursuit of High Tech Babies

Cracked Open is a provocative look at what happens when feminisms promise of choice collides with the limitations of reproductive science. Miriam Zoll was confident that she could postpone pregnancy to pursue her career. But once she was ready to start a family she discovered that, despite technological advances and positive cultural support for older motherhood, fertility clinics couldnt deliver the miracle she was counting on. Her story is a powerful reminder that as long as biology can trump personal aspirations, American women, even in the 21st century, cannot fully control their lives.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin, co-founder, Ms. Magazine; co-founder, National Womens Political Caucus; author of How to be a Friend to a Friend Whos Sick

Cracked Open tells the whole truth about the brave new world of ART (Assisted Reproductive Technologies)and this truth isnt nearly as rosy as weve all been led to believe. I highly recommend this book to everyone truly concerned about the hearts and souls of humanity.

Christiane Northrup, M.D., Ob/Gyn physician; New York Times bestselling author of Womens Bodies, Womens Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause

Creating a baby has gone from one of the most intimate acts and private decisions women make to a high tech industry involving dozens of actors with personal and public consequences rarely revealed. In a skillful melding of personal story and medical and policy facts, Miriam Zoll asks all the right questions about the ethics of assisted reproductive technology and the place baby making has in womens lives and identity.

Frances Kissling, president, Center for Health, Ethics and Social Policy; former president, Catholics for Choice

Cracked Open is a compelling narrative that speaks for a generation of women who, like the author, delayed parenthood only to find themselves immersed in the over-hyped world of Americas Wild West of reproductive medicine. Miriam Zoll convincingly indicts many current practices in the IVF and egg donation industry, making her book a must read both for anyone contemplating fertility treatments, and for those who believe that reproductive medicine is badly in need of reform.

George J. Annas, professor of health law, bioethics & human rights, Boston University; author of The Rights of Patients

Cracked Open is both a touching love story and a riveting account of one couples heartbreaking encounters with the virtually unregulated, nontransparent and profit-driven world of reproductive medicine. Although the failures of assisted reproductive technology are far more common than the successes, first-person accounts of the often-devastating consequences of entering this high-tech world remain all too rare. But finally, here is a writer with the courage to reveal the intensely personal drama of confronting infertility and medicines inflated promises. The readers heart will be cracked open, as were Zolls and her husbands, as they learned what it means to be real parents. This memoir is a powerful 21st century saga that should serve as the catalyst for a long-overdue critical public dialogue on the health risks and social costs of the emergence of an industry based on creating human life for profit.

Diane Beeson, PhD, Alliance for Humane Biotechnology, professor emerita, Department of Sociology, California State University, East Bay

Miriam Zolls book, Cracked Open, is a powerful, personal narrative that details the hidden side of reproductive technologies in the United Statesa country that, for the most part, steadfastly refuses to regulate its fertility industry, and thereby fails to protect the interests of women and men who use assisted reproductive technologies, and the children who are born from them.

Franoise Baylis, professor and Canada research chair in bioethics and philosophy, Dalhousie University; former member of the board of directors, Assisted Human Reproduction Canada, a federal oversight authority

Heart wrenching, raw and honestMiriam Zolls thought-provoking memoir brings us onto the emotional frontlines of life in the fast lane of unregulated reproductive medicine in the United States. Cracked Open powerfully illustrates the need for more public debate on the ethics, as well as the psychological and medical safety issues, related to donors, donor-conceived children and their parents. It is time that the fertility industry stopped focusing solely on achieving pregnancy and more on helping families in the most ethical and safe manner possible.

Wendy Kramer, co-founder and director, Donor Sibling Registry; co-author of Finding Our Families: A-First-of-its-Kind-Book for Donor-Conceived People and Their Families

Miriam Zolls insightful memoir strikes at the heart of American womens desires and choices, and their quest to find wholeness through work, motherhood or a balance of both. Cracked Open is another sobering reminder that for couples hoping to create a biological family, trying sooner rather than later is the healthier option. With honesty and humility, the author offers her own story as proof that in order to get what we want, we sometimes have to learn to hear what we might not want to.

Amy Richards, co-founder, Third Wave Foundation; author of Opting In: Having a Child without Losing Yourself

The joy of becoming a parent through assisted reproduction is widely and warmly appreciated. But until now weve heard very little about thosethe majority in all age groupsfor whom high-tech fertility treatments fail. In Cracked Open, Miriam Zoll gives us an unblinking account of the emotional anguish, health complications, ethical quandaries and financial costs of her own journey into the fertility industry. Cracked Open is a wonderfully engaging memoir that also delivers vital insights into the consequences of our failure to adequately understand and regulate the business of assisted reproduction. It sits squarely in the powerful feminist tradition of revealing the political stakes of personal experience through sharing our most heartfelt stories.

Marcy Darnovsky, PhD, executive director, Center for Genetics and Society

Cracked Open takes an unvarnished look at the netherworld of assisted reproduction and its sometimes joyous outcomes but, more often, its attendant agonies, failures and resulting emotional traumas. Revealing a labyrinth of unverifiable hucksterism, unregulated therapies and uninformed choices, Miriam Zoll courageously reveals her own battles with anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, and points the way for women in similar circumstances to heal themselves. This book can help couples make informed decisions and should be mandatory reading for both women and men entering their reproductive years.

Alexander Sanger, Chair, International Planned Parenthood Council; former Goodwill Ambassador, United Nations Population Fund; Author, Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom in the 21st Century

Unlike most traumaswhich are single, horrific and devastating eventsinfertility is chronic, silent, and often hidden from the public eye. In her well-written, passionate, and funny memoir, Miriam Zoll shows us how this mournful health condition with its invasive medical treatments erodes ones sense of confidence and purpose, and eats away at relationships. Cracked Open is a must read for people coping with infertilityso they know they are not aloneand also for their friends and family, who often dont understand the true traumatic nature of what their loved ones are experiencing.

Janet Jaffe, Ph.D., clinical psychologist, co-director, Center for Reproductive Psychology; co-author of Reproductive Trauma and Unsung Lullabies: Understanding and Coping with Infertility

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